Re: [PATCH] ACPI: Adjust Kelvin offset to match local implementation

[Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>]

On Fri, 27 Mar 2009, Jean Delvare wrote:

> Hi Rui,
> 
> On Tue, 03 Mar 2009 16:44:14 +0800, Zhang Rui wrote:
> > On Sun, 2009-03-01 at 21:03 +0800, Jean Delvare wrote:
> > > The exact offset between Kelvin and degree Celsius is 273.15. However
> > > ACPI handles temperature values with a single decimal place. As a
> > > consequence, some implementations use an offset of 273.1 and others
> > > use an offset of 273.2. Try to find out which one is being used, to
> > > present the most accurate and visually appealing number.
> > > 
> > > Tested on a Sony Vaio PGC-GR214EP (which uses 273.1) and a Lenovo
> > > Thinkpad T60p (which uses 273.2).
> > Sounds reasonable.
> > 
> > Acked-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
> 
> Thanks. Is this patch queued for 2.6.30 somewhere?

it was, but I had a conflict between this an another and so I dropped this 
one until I could look at it - which I havn't yet.  If you'd like to do
it for me, rebase on top of the acpi test branch.

thanks,
Len Brown, Intel Open Source Technology Center